The man, whose name has not been released, died at Parkland Memorial Hospital in what was the first fatal shooting in the nearly 100-year history of the town’s police force. It is unclear where the man concealed the gun and how thorough of a search the officers conducted before placing him in the vehicle near Southern Methodist University, Lt. Marc Rossini said.

The 6:30 p.m. 911 call that preceded the shooting by minutes came from a woman reporting that she suspected a motorcyclist was following her. Officers who were in the area spotted a motorcycle matching the description near Mockingbird Lane and Airline Road and tried to talk to the man when he returned to the bike.

The man tried to flee, police said, and he struggled with the officers.

“He was never at any point cooperative,” Rossini said. “He actively resisted. They were able to get him under control … He never gave up really fighting.”

Officers handcuffed the man behind his back and put him in the SUV. At that point, they still had not determined what charges he might face.

“While he was in the car, he was able to produce a handgun that he had hidden on his person and shot out one of the rear windows and tried to escape out the back window,” Rossini said.

Two of three officers at the scene fired at the man. Rossini would not release their names, but he said they were both “seasoned officers.” They were placed on administrative leave.

It was later determined that the motorcycle had been stolen and that the man had an outstanding warrant.

Highland Park police policy dictates that people who are detained in a police vehicle should be searched. That can include a pat down and a search of pockets, Rossini said.

The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department is leading the criminal investigation, Rossini said.

A spokeswoman for that agency, Carmen Castro, said in an email, “I can confirm DSO was asked to assist [with] the investigation but don’t have anything else at this time.”

Dallas activist the Rev. Ron Wright (at podium) and Clinton Allen's mother, Collette Flanagan (second from right), were among those at an afternoon news conference at an Oak Cliff office building. They called for the suspension of the Dallas police officer who fatally shot Allen in March.

The family of a man killed in a Dallas police shooting last month called today for the suspension of the officer involved without pay as the investigation continues into what they called the murder of an unarmed man.

Officer Clark Staller fatally shot 25-year-old Clinton Roebexar Allen during a confrontation on March 10. Dallas police have said Allen exhibited signs that he was high on PCP and that he charged the officer, grabbed his collar and choked him prior to the shooting.

“Officer Staller was being choked and feared for his life,” Staller’s attorney, Zach Horn, said in an email last month. “We have no doubt that the investigation of this officer-involved shooting will conclude that his actions were justified.”

“He stated that he had just shot two people,” according to the arrest warrant affidavit released Tuesday. “He additionally stated that he was armed and would not be taken alive by law enforcement.”

Lewis, 48, has been charged in the murder of Jessica Aguilar, 33, and the attempted murder of Francisco Delacruz, 40. The victims were shot outside The Harbor, a Rockwall entertainment center, where they had seen a movie together.

The pursuit of Lewis ended in Hunt County after his car was disabled by spike strips. He was shot and wounded by police officers after pointing a 9 mm handgun at them.

Members of the New Black Panther Party led a protest at Jack Evans Police Headquarters in response to a recent string of fatal Dallas police shootings.

Representatives of the New Black Panther Party and several other community members and activists protested outside Jack Evans Police Headquarters today in response to a recent string of fatal Dallas police shootings, mostly of minority men.

A little more than a dozen protesters led chants of “black power” and called for an end to what they said is a “shoot to kill policy” by police here and in other major cities.

“It’s not just happening in Dallas,” said Darrin X., a New Black Panther member who declined to provide his last name. “It’s not just happening on Dixon Circle. But it’s a national shoot to kill policy on black and brown men.”

Dallas police officers have fatally shot eight men this year, including suspected drug dealer James Harper who was killed in South Dallas last week. Harper was not armed, but the officer who shot him said he was assaulting the officer at the time and appeared to be reaching for something in his pocket.

Most of the other men fatally shot by police this year were armed and in every case officers have said they were in fear for their lives when they fired their weapons.

In an email sent following today’s protest, Police Chief David Brown called for calm.

“We continue to pray for cooler heads to prevail in the Dixion circle community and our officers are continuing to reach out to that neighborhood to calm any tensions that remain,” Brown said in an email.

A news release advertising today’s event indicated the protesters were coming with a specific list of demands for Brown, but it appeared there was no list.

Eventually the group made its way inside police headquarters, where they asked unsuccessfully for a meeting with Brown. They continued some of their chants inside the headquarters lobby for several minutes, before officers told them they were being disruptive and needed to leave the building.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings just issued this statement in response to last night’s fatal police shooting in South Dallas:

My confidence in Dallas Police Department and Chief Brown has never been higher. Crime has never been lower and we are on our ninth year of crime reduction. We were tested last night and Chief Brown is thouroughly investigating the incident to ensure no civil rights were violated. As this case is examined let me be clear, Dallas has a zero tolerancefor civil rights violations as well as a zero tolerance for bad people dealing drugs.

McDaniel died last night, making him the seventh person killed by Dallas police gunfire this year. There were two fatal shootings by Dallas police last year, six in 2010 and five in 2009.

Asked about this year’s spike in fatal police shootings, Dallas Police Assistant Chief Cynthia Villarreal said the department does a thorough review of all police shootings.

“No officer wants to get into a deadly force confrontation,” Villarreal said. “The citizens expect us to take action if we see something. They don’t want us to walk away from it.”

Also noted at today’s news conference at Jack Evans Police Headquarters is that McDaniel had a prior history of criminal conduct.

He was arrested last year on robbery, theft and burglary charges, according to public records. He ultimately pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft and attempted theft charges and a felony burglary charge.

McDaniel spent several months in the Dallas County Jail and was released in December on probation, according to records.

Update: The footage above was taken by Josue Bocanegra, 14, who lives across the street from the standoff location.

By Scott Goldstein, Avi Selk and Andrew Pantazi

Staff Writers

ARLINGTON — An Arlington SWAT officer was injured and a robbery suspect was killed in a shooting as police executed a felony warrant at an apartment complex Tuesday night, police said.

Officer Bryan Graham was reportedly in stable condition and was expected to survive following the central Arlington shooting about 7:15 p.m. Arlington police said he was shot just above the right eyebrow.

The robbery suspect, Alexzander Coan, 23, died at a local hospital.

The officer was being treated at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.

Fort Worth police were executing an aggravated robbery warrant at an apartment complex in the 600 block of Arkansas Lane near South Collins Street, police said. About 4:45 p.m., they called for Arlington police to assist in the operation, police said.

Arlington SWAT was ultimately called in to assist, apparently because the suspect was holed up in a back room of an apartment with two women, police said.

“As soon as our SWAT team arrived, shortly after, we heard shots ring out from the apartment,” said Arlington police Sgt. Christopher Cook.

An Arlington SWAT vehicle in the distance near the scene of a shooting in which an officer and two other people were wounded on Tuesday night. (Avi Selk/DMN)

The officer and Coan were wounded and one of the women suffered minor injuries, police said.

The other woman in the apartment was being interviewed by police.

Officers established a large perimeter blocking access to the apartment complex.

Coan was a suspect in numerous robberies in Fort Worth and surrounding cities, police said.

Graham has been with the police department for 11 years and is married with a 4-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter, police said. He has been assigned to SWAT since 2005.

A video of the incident shot by a witness appeared to show officers use a smoke device on the apartment. What sounds like gunfire rang out and officers were then seen rushing the scene.

A short time later, officers were seen carrying what appeared to be the wounded officer from the scene.

The shooting comes as Dallas police have experienced a spike in shootings this year. Officers in Dallas have fatally shot six people so far this year. They’ve been involved in a total of 12 shootings.

A Dallas police officer shot at a fleeing motorist who dragged him with his vehicle during a traffic stop Saturday night.

Officer James Todd was not seriously injured. It’s unclear if the suspect, whose name was not released, was injured in the shooting.

Todd and another officer pulled the motorist over in the 2000 block of Campfire Circle near Marvin D Love Freeway and South Hampton Road about 9 p.m. The driver initially would not give the officers his true name.

The officers were able to determine who he was and that he had warrants out for his arrest. The officers “both approached the driver’s side door,” a police report said.

“The driver’s side door was locked and [Todd] reached in to unlock the door to put the susp in custody,” the report said. “That is when the susp drove off at a high rate of speed.”

The officer’s right arm was caught inside the vehicle and he was dragged a short distance. He suffered a laceration to his right arm and right leg, but he did not need emergency medical treatment, police said.

Officers who went to a Desoto home in search of the suspect this morning did not find him there.

It was the second Dallas police officer-involved shooting of the day.

On Saturday morning about 4, an officer working an off-duty job in northwest Dallas also fired at a motorist.

The officer, whose name was not released, was working in the 3300 block of Lombardy Lane near Webb Chapel Road and heard loud banging noises coming from a parking lot, according to a Dallas police report.

She spotted two suspects hitting a vehicle with a “hard object,” the report said. The suspects got in the vehicle and sped off, driving toward the officer.

The officer ordered the suspects to stop before firing at them, according to police. The suspects were not believed to have been hit by the gunfire and they have not been arrested.